On 12/5/2004 3:39 AM Ow Mun Heng wrote:
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 04:29, John Swartzentruber wrote:
I have an older server running RH9 that I use as a personal email server
and webserver. I also host a few small mailman lists. That server has
had some hardware problems, so I thought it would be a good idea to get
another computer, which I did. I installed FC2 on it, then upgraded it
to FC3. The plan is to switch back and forth during upgrades so that I
always have something available. During this time, the original server
is still my webserver and email server, but both computers are on my
internal network behind a router which does port forwarding.
While both computers are up and running, I can get my daily log email
messages from each computer using IMAP by accessing each server directly
from my personal computer on my home network. On both computers, the
/etc/aliases file has most addresses directed to root, then at the
bottom directs root to "arthur" (on the old server) or "buster" (on the
new server). These are also the names of the servers.
My master name server is handled by a server at my employer, which is
remote. Both servers are running "named" in slave mode (I think). As you
can tell, I'm mostly a newbie but know almost enough to be dangerous.
Anyway, that is all background. The problem is that yesterday I removed
all port forwarding on my router, shut down arthur (the old server), and
switched my port forwarding to send SMTP, HTTP, and DNS to buster (the
new server). It looks like everything is working, but now, I no longer
get my log email messages from buster (the new server).
Now this is the strange part: When I turn arthur back on, I receive my
missing log messages on buster. Clearly there is some sort of dependency
on arthur that is in buster, but I can't figure out what it is. I'm
guessing it is DNS related, but don't know enough to find it.
I'm guessing that arthur is the one which is relaying all the messages??
Only these system messages seem to be affected. I don't think arthur
would be used to relay these messages. Besides, wouldn't that show up in
the headers?
Can you check if the mesage queue in buster is in the queue?
sendmail -bp?
mailq -Ac?
I turned Arthur on, then the messages were delivered, so nothing is
pending. I'll try to remember to turn arthur off overnight again and
check this in the morning. Thanks for your help.
Even when my log messages don't show up, I can send messages to
"root@xxxxxxxxxxxx" and "buster@xxxxxxxxxxxx", and they show up just fine.
I'm stumped. Can anyone give me some pointers or guesses? I hope I've
provided sufficient information.
Thanks
